Ambrose Bierce, Write It Right: Category Archives: J |
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Jeopardize for Imperil, or Endanger. The correct word is jeopard, but in any case there is no need for anything so far-fetched and stilted.
Juncture. Juncture means a joining, a junction; its use to signify a time, however critical a time, is absurd. “At this juncture the woman screamed.” In reading that account of it we scream too.